Fastening couplet



March 26, 1935. D. 1.. LUZZIE FASTENING COUPLET Filed Aug. 16, 1934 I N we NTOE ,Dorwil A. Auzz/e.

Lu jy flTTOFA/EY Patented Mar. 26, 1935' STATES PATNT This invention relates generally to fastening device's. More particularly, my invention relates to a certain'new and useful improvement in, what I'term, fastening couplets and has for its chief object the provision of a couplet especially,though not exclusively, designed for use in connection with womens Wearing apparel for, while efficiently securing parts thereof together, permitting relative movement therebetween for comfortably accommodating movement of the body of the wearer, the couplet comprising co-operable or companion members which are of simple, inexpensive, and durable structure, which may be easily sewed or otherwise fixed to thegarment or other parts, and which may be conveniently attached and detached one to and from the other. And with the above and other objects in View, my invention resides in the novel features of form, construction, arrangement, and combination of parts presently described and pointed out in the claims. I

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 illustrates in fragmental perspective a womans garment equipped with fasteningcouplets embodying my invention;

Figure 2 is an enlarged plan view of the couplet with its members in connected or attache relation; I

Figure 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of the couplet-members in attached relation; and

Figure 4 shows the couplet-members associated or attached as in Figure 2 for connecting the contiguous or opposed ends of a strap or straps.

Referring now more in detail and by reference characters to the drawing, which illustrates a practical embodiment of my invention, A and B designate the co-operable or companion members of the couplet, which are preferably constructed from any suitable light-weight sheet metal, and which are preferably of diminutive size for their especially designed use, the coupletmembers in actual size being preferably quite considerably smaller than here illustrated.

Member A, which I will designate the main or first member of the couplet, comprises integrally a body-portion 1 preferably, though not essentially, of general disk formation, provided centrally and upon a side face thereof with an upstanding headed stud 2, and joined to body-portion 1 by a reduced neck 3, is an elongated eye 4 for ready attachment of the member A, preferably by sewing, to a particular garment-part, the bodyportion 1 being also provided intermediate its perimeter and the stud 2 and diametrically opposite the'eye 4 with an arcuate or widenedclosed-fl' end slot 5 preferably concentric with the stud 2.

' Member 13 integrally includes an elongated eye 6 for similarready attachment of the member B to the garment-part, and projecting laterally from 5 the inner bar of eye 6 is a suitably elongatedflatstrip having a width and thickness of reduced di-' mensions relatively to the length and width ofthe slot 5, such strip comprising an inner end-portion or shank '7 and a longitudinally extending outer" end-portion or tongue 8 joined to the shank 7 by an intermediate portion 9 angularly disposed to the shank 7 and tongue 8, so that the tongue 8 is end with an aperture 10 for springwise detachable offset, as it may be said, relatively to the shank 7, the tongue. 8 being providedor formed at its free engagement of the tongue 8 over and with the ,ing with, but slightly reduced diametrically relatively to, the aperture 10 of shank 8, as best seen in Figure 3. V e

For illustration, the couplet is shown in Figure 1, as has been stated, in connection with a woman's garment C, to the upper margin of the front and back of which a plurality, in the present instance,

fourof the couplet members A are, at their eyes 4, sewed or otherwise fixed. Co-operable with and forming part of the garment C, are shoulderstraps 12, and sewed or otherwise. fixed at their eyes 6 to the free ends of the straps 12, are 'co-' operable companion members B, which at their tongues 8 may befreely endwise projected through the slots 5 of the respective members A and then by suitable pressure exerted upon the free end thereof engaged at their apertures 10 over and with thestuds 2, as shown. As so connected or joined, the straps 12 are securely engaged with the garment C, requiring positive pressure of the thumb or finger on the tongue 8 for effecting separation, but yet a certain amount of relative lateral or swingable movement between the straps '12 and garment Cis permitted, binding which might retard freedom ofmovement of the bodyof the wearer being thereby eliminated and the 2; a it the form,construction, arrangement, and combination of the couplet parts may be made and ,substitutedfor those herein shown and described without departing from the nature: and principle ,of my invention.

Having thus described myinvention} what I 7 claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent is,

1. A fastening-couplet comprising, incombination, a first member having anupst anding stud 1 anda transverse slot, and a secondmember hay-- ing a tongue for projection through said slot and,

having means for engagement overa'nd receiving the stud for securing said members detachably togethensaid members when so securedtogether being swingable the one relatively to theother;

2. A fastening-couplet comprising, in. combination, a first member having an upstanding stud and a' transverse slot, and a second memberhaving a shank and a longitudinally extending'oifset apertured tongue for projection through said slot foryengagement over and receiving the stud in" said aperture for securing said members'deta ch ably together, said-members whenfso secured to- 'ge'ther: being; swingable the one relativelyl to theother. e V a 3;,A2fastening-coup1et comprising, in combina'- tion, a; first member integrally including a diskshaped body portion provided with an. upstanding stud and having a slot intermediate the stud, and the perimeter of the body portion, and a second member integrallycomprising' a shank and a longitudinal extending ofise't apertured tongue for projection through said slot for engagement over and receiving the stud in'said aperture tor securing said members detachably'together, said members when so secured together being swing able the one relativelyltothe other. H

'an attaching eye, a shank laterally extending from the. eye and" alongitudinally extending tongue joined in ofiset relation to the shank by an.

intermediate angularly disposed portion, and hav- 10 tion, a first 'rnember-integrally includinga; body 7 ing an aperture-at its-free end,'.said:tongue being disposed J for projection through; said; slot forgone gagement at its apertured endzovelzamimeceivirmg,

the studrinsaid aperture for securingsaid momhers ,detachably together in relatively swingable:

relation.

. DOROTHY L. nozzle. 

